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Topical Issues in Pain 5 - 'Bumper' 398 page edition, just released. £28.50 delivered in the UK.

This fourth volume contains further ground-breaking and highly relevant work. Taking on the placebo and nocebo phenomenon, pain management and muscles and pain the volume yet again promotes the forward thinking and cutting edge work of the Physiotherapy Pain Association.

In Part 1 a number of internationally renowned clinicians and researchers have come together to produce the first published attempt to broadly address and critically appraise the placebo and nocebo phenomenon from a clinical perspective for physiotherapists. The information and the way the material is presented should fascinate as well as challenge readers to think and work differently. Understanding the placebo requires a radical shift in thinking about human recovery mechanisms and the way in which treatments can be triggered to work most efficiently.

This volume adds three further topics to those already covered in the first two of the series -

• the sympathetic nervous system and pain
• pain management
• clinical effectiveness.

The role of the sympathetic nervous system in pain has come under considerable scrutiny in recent years. New and much better controlled research has led to quite strong challenges to its precise role and as a result syndromes such as reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia and sympathetically maintained pain have now been re-classified under the umbrella term 'complex regional pain syndrome'.

The astonishing success of the first volume has encouraged the production of the now ground-breaking: Topical Issues in Pain 2, Biopsychosocial Assessment and Management. Relationships and Pain.

Now available as an E-book only in Portable Document Format (pdf) at £8.99

The first PPA yearbook, Topical Issues in Pain 1, Whiplash: Science and Management. Fear avoidance beliefs and behaviour, plenty of highly relevant material, still popular and now in its third reprint.